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Name: Patrick N. Farmer

E-mail: [email protected]

Burke County High School  Room #103

 

 

 

 

Greetings! Together Everyone Achieves More! Let's go TEAM!  Without a doubt, it takes a village to raise a child to be a productive citizen.  All stakeholders must play their respective roles in helping to mold and shape the minds of today's youth. Being proud to work in Bear Country, I am striving to enrich the lives of students here at Burke County High School.  For this school year, I am teaching IB Personal & Professional Skills and Advanced Composition.  Let's Go TEAM!

 

 

Advanced Composition is a rigorous core course credit option designed to develop and hone students' understanding and application of the art of composition for success in multiple post-graduation pathways: workforce entry, military service, technical education, and college. This course can be used to satisfy the third or fourth credit required for graduation. Students will deepen their understanding of the roles of context and rhetoric as they plan, compose, revise, and edit texts for intended purposes and target audiences across multiple modes and media. This course utilizes the 9th-12th grade English standards and the appropriate grade-level expectations of Georgia's K12 English Language Arts Standards. By the end of the course, students will have defined a personal understanding of and approach to composition so that they can communicate effectively across workplace, military, technical, and academic settings.

Advanced Composition focuses on writing processes (planning, drafting, revising) in real-world contexts that students will encounter after graduation. Students will analyze and produce texts for a wide variety of intended purposes, target audiences, modes, and genres, with emphasis on professional communications, technical documentation, career advancement materials, and college application/academic writing. Students will engage in research, explore multiple text structures, analyze literary-historical contexts, develop technical and professional vocabulary, and cultivate critical information literacy skills essential for both career and academic success. Advanced language skills (grammar, usage, mechanics, and syntax) are applied to authentic workplace, military, and academic contexts.

 

 

Following the instructional strategies of Visible Learning, BCHS is a GROWL School:

GROWL acronym:
G - Goal-Oriented: We set clear goals and work hard to achieve them
R - Resourceful: We find creative solutions and use tools effectively
O - Open-Minded: We embrace new ideas and perspectives
W - Willing to Collaborate: We value teamwork and diverse viewpoints
L - Lifelong Learners: We stay curious and strive for continuous growth

We want our students to be successful, engaged, responsible learners! The Learning Targets will be posted in class and discussed with the students each unit/lesson.

 

Happily married for 13 years to my wife LaMesha, I am the proud father of three awesome boys: Dylan 12 yrs old, Daniel 10 yrs old, and Dallas 8 yrs old. Also, I am the author of two books of poetry: The Conversation Within and The Noise in Between. It is my hope and aim to inspire my students not only to develop a love for reading, but for writing as well.  I firmly believe that my students, with the proper guidance and encouragement, can become published authors. As a result, their words will live on for generations to come. Above all, I desire for them to become productive citizens who will be able to compete in a global market, no matter what career path they decide to pursue.